Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Hale Broun
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no end to the sufficiency of character. It can afford to wait; it can do without what is called success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.
Henry Kissinger
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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